Welcome to Season 3!
Season 2 was too long! We can all agree on that, whew.. sweaty. Season's from now on will be set at a 4week 3 day cadence, optimal pummeling time. Why 3 days? Want to kick off the season on Community day and let people have a chance to score some drops right out the door and end on a Sunday for that weekend optimal leaderboard chase.
Season 3 Kickoff Tournament / Event
What's new in Season 3?
New Ranking system for Leaderboards.
There's 9 internal rankings for the Leaderboards, you can think of these as like Tier Rankings. This allows us to make different segments of the leaderboards more competitive by offering bonuses for killing people X tiers above you.
So as of now you'll receive bonus points for killing people that are 3+ tiers ahead of you, the scoring is set in away that we should basically have 3 different competitive section on the leaderboards (dependent on amount of players of course).
The simple way to look at this. If you're in Tier 3 and kill someone on in Tier 6, you'll gain 2 extra bonus points on the leaderboards.
Arena Powers Revamp V1
The Arena Powers were fun for season 2, but they were also a bit awkward. The inconsistent beasts, bosses depending on where you were playing weren't the best - and though 'auto strimmer' tried, it just didn't make the best of the powers. Not too mention the 'Helping Lightening' could feel a bit bad if a streamer just tried to decimate the players with it (though, super fun as the streamer at times).
With that I've removed the control for the powers (BITS still work!!) and the powers will just automagically / randomly occur. Beasts and bosses will now spawn based on time + amount of people alive. More people? More beasts.
Brand new Arena Pass
I love the idea of having a pass that you can earn free goodies in the game; it makes it fun! But, I also think just straight XP pass is a bit 'drab'. The pass has been reworked to reward you for achieving different stats during the season, this is the first version towards trying to build out a more 'quest like' reward system through future season (probably a ways off, lots of work to do everywhere!)
Banners and Titles
You can now earn Banners and Titles through completing quests! We'll come up with more ways to reward these as the seasons go on.
Banners will be placed next to you when you win a match. Titles will be shown below your name in game, you'll be able to equip these in your loadout on steam/Mobile.
More Stuff
There was a long list of bug changes and just general improvements. There will be new characters, maps, and more through the season! Working on a better cadence for releases (rather than just all the time!) to keep some content fresh for the following seasons and to also give myself a break here and there.
I have lots of plans for the Game and plan on keeping it rolling! Hope to see you in the arena!
